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All attendees, including lecturers, Organizing Committee members, and moderators, cast one vote each day for the poster-award selection. Based on the results of the voting, the Organizing Committee conducted a collegial review and selected the poster award winners. The “Best Poster Presentation Award” was presented to the six best poster presenters 

Hyo's presentation, titled "Neural Mechanisms of Social Buffering in the Mouse Prefrontal Cortex", focused on her research on the neural mechanisms of social buffering. Social buffering is a phenomenon in which the presence of a social companion can reduce the stress response to a threatening event.

Youn's master degree paper, titled ' Social play exclusion model in adolescent rats : Tracking anxiety behavior and c-Fos expression in the brain', focused on her research on the neural mechanisms of adolescent rats' social play behavior. Social play is a phenomenon in which t...

Dr. Minji Jang has recently begun a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Neurology at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Dankook University in South Korea, where her research focused on social buffering, emotion, and fear memory.